Abbey of Grandchamp

Founded, it seems, before 1199 under the term of Notre-Dame, by Simon IV of Montfort, the abbey of Grandchamp was located on the territory of the commune of Grandchamp, in the current department French of the Yvelines.

The monks who governed it were of the Prémontrés, order founded in 1120 by holy Norbert de Xanten. Their Community mission was the Contemplation and the Apostolat, i.e., while carrying out a life monacale, they had in load faithful parishes of their grounds. In reality, they named a priest who had this load.

The Wars of religion were harmful with the convent which was burned by the Calviniste S in 1568 and to the canons who all were almost massacrés.
The buildings were restored towards 1585 and a regular abbot, Adrien de Gueschard, tried to reconstitute a community, but the joint mandatories hastened the ruin of the house which was again the prey of the flames in 1680. In 1681, the abbot of Prémontrés removed the monastery and the conventual Mense was plain with that of the conventual college of Paris.

It does not remain, of the presence of the monks, that the abbey residence and a vault forming the field of Grandchamp, today farm and forest.

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • the abbey Notre-Dame de Grandchamp on the site of the files of the General advice of Yvelines
  • Little story of the royal abbey Notre Dame de Grandchamp by the canon Tortures, 1948, site of the town hall of Grandchamp

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